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Fox40: “GPS Not Total Solution to Prison Overcrowding”

August 20, 2009

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Suzanne Brown-McBride is the Executive Director of CALCASA as well as the chair of California’s Sex Offender Management Board. Brown-McBride was recently interviewed for a story about GPS monitoring devices as a strategy to reduce prison overcrowding. She said: “GPS tells us where offenders are, but it doesn’t tell us what they are doing…A sex

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State to cut back housing aid for paroled sex offenders

February 10, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

The Contra Costa Times reported earlier this week that “the state will stop paying long-term motel and apartment rents for thousands of sex offenders across California under an order Monday from a top corrections official, who acknowledged the move likely will add to the rolls of sex offenders who become homeless to avoid the living

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ABC News 10: "Cost Cuts Could Send Sex Offenders Underground"

February 6, 2009

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ABC News 10: “Paroled sex offenders say new cuts to housing assistance will likely force more of them into the streets at greater risk to public safety.” Next week, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDRC) announces new policies, including a stricter 60-day limit on paying rent for parolees newly released from prison. The

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Weekly News Update

January 5, 2009

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Week of Dec 22nd and Dec 29th Department of Justice Reports Increase of Rape, Sexual Assault, and Domestic Violence in US The Feminist Daily News Wire reported this morning about a recently released report by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The report said that the “rates of rape, sexual assault, and domestic violence in the

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Bakersfield – Meeting Held To Discuss Protection From Sex Offenders

January 9, 2008

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from ABC News BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The sex offender management board met in Bakersfield Tuesday to discuss protection from violent sex offenders. Their mission is to decrease sexual predator offenses and increase community safety.

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